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...judges at Atlanta went a step further. They argued in some cases a black defendant needs the sensitivity of a black judge to get a fair trial. "If I get a probation report that a fellow has been in a gang," said U.S. District Judge A. Leon Higginbotham of Philadelphia, "I may know something that the white judge doesn't: that almost everybody in that neighborhood has to be in a gang to get to school safely." The black jurists feel that they must educate their white counterparts in such matters...
Among the panelists are Assembly-woman Yvonne W. Brathwaite from the 63rd district of the California State Legislature; Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; Otis M. Smith, a member of the Office of General Counsel for General Motors Corp.; Judge Edward F. Bell of the Wayne County Circuit Court, Detroit, Mich., president of the National Bar Association; and Donald L. Hollowell, regional director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and former private attorney to the Rev. Martin Luther King...
...often casually appointed and thus easily shelved or forgotten. In arousing hopes that they often cannot fulfill, they contribute to a further erosion of confidence in democratic institutions at a time when they are already facing sustained criticism. After serving on the Violence Commission, U.S. District Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. urged a moratorium on all commissions to solve social problems. There had been too much study, he complained, and too little action. Of course, if the President were to act on this advice, he would probably start by appointing a brand-new commission to study the feasibility of abolishing...
...others: Chairman Milton S. Eisenhower, Terence Cardinal Cooke of New York City, Senator Philip Hart, Judge A. Leon Higginbotham and Psychiatrist Walter Menninger. The majority included Senator Roman Hruska, Congressmen Hale Boggs and William M. McCulloch, Author Eric Hoffer, Attorneys Leon Jaworski and Albert Jenner Jr. and Judge Ernest W. McFarland...
...come the militants-mostly men with minuscule followings and even less in the way of concrete accomplishment for their race-to confront the nation's Negroes with a choice. "They can try to solve their problems," says Philadelphia's U.S. District Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, a Negro, "by supporting people who have programmatic effectiveness, like Whitney Young. Or they can place their faith in others and have another century of increasing chaos...